Re: Best Album by Each Band

13 is my favorite Blur album as well. Probably their weirdest and most musically accomplished, esp. the back half-- the stretch from "Battle" to "No Distance Left to Run" is better than anything they've done (IMO).

Re: Best Album by Each Band

The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever To Tell
Modest Mouse - The Moon And Antarctica (Agree, a near masterpiece, but LCW one of most overrated LPs of last 20 years...three great songs and a ton of slop)
Grinderman - Take Your pick - I has better best songs and wicked humor (great best songs), II is a more consistent and more instrumentally impressive effort but as second cover implies, more menacing than funny.
Beach House - Teen Dream
Stars - Set Yourself On Fire
Foals - Total Life Forever

RHCP - In minority here, but I love the 2006 double way more than Blood Sugar Sex Magic, just a JF showcase
Nick Cave - Who knows, but for a 50 year old, his recent years have been incredibly productive, last release Dig Lazarus Dig was great, like it and Abatoir a lot more than Murder Ballads but his discography is vast.
Vampire Weekend - The s/t debut
Tame Impala - Lonerism is an incredibly forward looking approach on psychedelic music, but I find it really lacks momentum and am personally partial to Innerspeaker even though Lonerism is a much more unique effort and sonically amazing.
The Gaslight Anthem - The '59 Sound but in honesty, this is one of those bands where every song truly does sound the same - one of the least impressive and unwarranted ask backs in recent memory - very average live act - which is surprising giving the Springsteeny earnestness of their songs.
Thee Oh Sees - Tons of material, but I really liked last years Carrion Crawler/The Dream Double EP - two or three barn burners in there I hope to hear on the polo fields.